Wei Jin was also a little suspicious, this information did come too quickly, in terms of time, it was too late for the spies to run back and forth from Xinzheng County to Luokoucang overnight.

Of course, it can also be said that Yang Qing has already sent scouts to investigate, but this is by no means in line with Yang Qing's style, this kind of thing Yang Qing can hide, how can he take the initiative to send scouts to investigate.

And yesterday he and Yang Qing disagreed, with Yang Qing's personality, how could he cooperate with him so happily, just like a saint who has no grudges, if Yang Qing worked so hard to fight the Wagang Army, the Wagang Army would have been wiped out a long time ago, and it would not be like today.

Wei Jin nodded, "You have a point, in fact, I also think it's a little strange, Yang Qing brought out all the 30,000 troops, so who will sit in Guancheng County to protect his family and property?" This is simply incredible, there must be something wrong with Yang Qing. ”

Wei Jin didn't suspect Wang Shichong, he just suspected that Yang Qing would collude with the Wagang Army, after all, Yang Qing had a disgraceful history of betraying Zhang Xutuo, he pondered for a moment, "That's it!" We turned west and joined up with Yang Qing's army, either to attack the Wagang army together, or to cancel the operation. ”

Du Ruhui said slowly: "I actually suspect that the Wagang Army is not in Xinzheng County at all. ”

Wei Jin suddenly realized that if Yang Qing's news was false, then the possibility of the Wagang army in Xinzheng County was not very high, and he immediately got up and said: "Pass my order, and the army will be assembled immediately!" ”

As soon as he finished speaking, a sentry stumbled over, "General Qiyu, something is wrong, there are armies in the four directions of east, west, south and north, and we are surrounded." ”

Wei Jin secretly complained, they were really betrayed by Yang Qing, he was so anxious that he grabbed the sentry and asked, "How far is it?" ”

"About a mile or so."

Du Ruhui hurriedly said: "Before the enemy army converges, the army will immediately break through." ”

Wei Jin turned on his horse and shouted, "The whole army is assembled. Break north! ”

The soldiers were in a mess and grabbed their weapons and rushed out to the north of the woods.

This is Wang Shichong's poisonous plan to kill people with a knife, Yang Qing and the Wagang Army reached an agreement, Duan Da and Yang Qing cooperated to betray Wei Jin, and the Wagang Army was responsible for the total annihilation of Wei Jin's army, on the condition that Luokoucang be ceded to the Wagang Army.

Although Du Ruhui saw Wang Shichong's poisonous plan. But Wei Jin was an upright person, and he didn't believe that there was such a dark heart in the world, so he finally fell into the trap of the Wagang army.

Shan Xiongxin and Hao Xiaode led an army of 100,000 and surrounded the 25,000 Sui army from four directions, Shan Xiongxin pointed at the Sui army in the distance and laughed, "With a royal family like Yang Qing, the ten Sui dynasties will be finished, send the order to the army, attack!" ”

'Boom! Boom! Boom! The drums of war were beaten. This is the order to encircle and attack, 100,000 Wagang troops shouted and killed from all directions, Yang Gongqing led 5,000 cavalry to rush to the front, rushing towards the back of the Sui army.

The 25,000 Sui army was completely suppressed by the momentum of the Wagang army, although they desperately broke through, but they were surrounded by 100,000 large regiments, and 5,000 cavalry took the lead in smashing into the back of the Sui army, tearing the Sui army's formation apart. On the battlefield, the Sui army suffered countless casualties, crying and screaming.

Five thousand cavalry rushed continuously. Dividing more than 20,000 Sui troops into more than a dozen pieces, the Sui soldiers were in a mess, no longer obeying the commander's command, and began to break through separately.

Du Ruhui saw that the cavalry in the south was too sharp, and it was impossible to break through from the south, so he hurriedly said to Wei Jin: "Break through from the northeast." It must be the weakest over there! ”

There were only more than 5,000 people left around Wei Jin, and he was remorseful and resentful in his heart, no longer rejecting Du Ruhui's opinion, and shouted: "Follow me to the northeast to break through!" ”

He led 5,000 soldiers to the northeast, where Hao Xiaode's army was headed. He had already seen Wei Jin and his personal guards, so he shouted: "Surround the Sui army in the northeast, not one is allowed to escape!" ”

There is nothing wrong with Wei Jin breaking through to the northeast, the northeast direction is indeed the weakest place of the Wagang army, with less than 4,000 people, while more than 20,000 people were deployed in the northwest corner, but the battle situation changed in an instant, Hao Xiaode discovered Wei Jin's location, and the northeast direction became the most difficult place to break through, and nearly 30,000 people surrounded Wei Jin and his subordinates.

Wei Jin was so anxious that he waved his sword and shouted: "Rush out, rush out at all costs!" ”

At this moment, a stray arrow shot at a rapid pace, Wei Jin couldn't dodge, hit him in the chest, the sharp armor arrow shot through his chest, and submerged into the body, Wei Jin screamed, turned over and fell off the horse.

Wei Jin's own soldiers rushed to rescue him, their eyes were red, and they desperately killed the overlapping enemy troops, but there were more and more soldiers of the Wagang army, and they saw that they could no longer fight their way out of the encirclement.

At this moment, there was a great chaos on the periphery of the Wagang Army, only to see an army coming from behind the Wagang Army, which caught the Wagang Army off guard, and was torn open a big hole.

He was unwilling to be taken away from his credit, and heard that Wei Jin led the Sui army to the south, and hurriedly led the army to converge, but he happened to encounter the Wagang army to set up a siege, and he opened a bloody road for the besieged Sui army at a critical moment.

Wei Wentong shouted sharply: "Hurry up!" ”

Hundreds of soldiers escorted the wounded Wei Jin and the civilian official Du Ruhui, and broke out of the encirclement in one fell swoop, they did not dare to stay, desperately ran north and fled, and the rest of the Sui soldiers saw that there was no hope of breaking through the siege, and they knelt down and surrendered.

In this battle, only more than 1,000 of the 25,000 Sui troops escaped, more than 5,000 were killed, and the rest all became prisoners of war of the Wagang army.

This is the brutal political struggle, the 25,000 Sui army became the sacrifice of Wang Shichong to control the Luoyang court, Shan Xiongxin did not chase the deserters, according to the conditions agreed between him and Hao Xiaode in advance, he received all 18,000 Sui army soldiers, these are the elite of the Sui army, he wants these troops.

And Hao Xiaode led an army of 30,000 to Luokoucang to kill, according to the conditions offered by Wang Shichong, Luokoucang will become their biggest trophy in this battle, the money and grain belong to Zhai Rang, but the 80,000 sets of armor in the Luokou warehouse belong to Hao Xiaode.

………

Wei Wentong led the army to run out of more than 20 miles in one go, and went straight to a small stream, seeing that there were no pursuers behind, they slowly stopped, they raided the enemy army with almost no casualties, and still maintained a team of 2,000 people.

But there were more than 100 people in the team, and it was Wei Jin's personal soldiers. They put Vezin, covered in blood, on a flat boulder.

Everyone's hearts were cold, and they saw that an arrow was shot right in the heart, and they lost too much blood, Wei Jin was already dying, and seeing that it was no longer possible, many of the soldiers cried bitterly.

Then. Wei Jin slowly opened his eyes and moved his gaze to find Du Ruhui, who quickly knelt in front of his uncle, held his hand, and burst into tears.

Wei Jin's lips moved, as if he was about to say something, Du Ruhui hurriedly put his ears up, and saw his uncle say in a very low voice: "You are right, it is Wang Shichong......"

Du Ruhui nodded. Choked up and said, "I know it's him!" ”

Wei Jin struggled with the last bit of strength and whispered to Du Ruxuan: "Go and vote for Zhang Xuan......"

Before he finished speaking, the person swallowed his breath, his gaze gradually disappeared, and Wei Jin died with hatred.

All the relatives knelt down together and cried bitterly, Du Ruhui fainted from crying, and even Wei Wentong's eyes next to him were red, and he slowly clenched his fists. Yang Qing killed an upright Sui minister again.

I don't know how long it took, Wei Wentong helped Du Ruhui up. "Let's go to Yangwu County with me first, we will bury Master Wei well, and then think about it in the long run."

Du Ruhui nodded, this is indeed not a burial place, he and his own soldiers wrapped Wei Jin's body with a battle flag and carried it on a war horse. The group was miserable and miserable and went to Yangwu County, a hundred miles away.

……….

Hao Xiaode Xingchong led the army to Luokoucang, but unexpectedly found that Cangcheng was closed, and Cangcheng was full of Sui soldiers, and there was no sign of evacuating Xiancheng.

Hao Xiaode rushed forward and yelled: "Who is the lord of the city?" ”

I saw a point of the battle flag at the head of the city, and Wang Shichong walked out from behind the flag. sneered: "Thank you for your hard work, go back!" I will treat you with a little food, and I will not let you work in vain. ”

Hao Xiaode was so angry that he almost vomited blood, he galloped back to the team and shouted: "Give me the siege, I will break this treacherous thief into pieces!" ”

The 30,000 army surged up, the arrows of the army in the city rained down, the soldiers of the Wagang army screamed and fell to the ground, and thousands of casualties were immediately lost, and the 30,000 army turned around and fled like a low tide, at this time, Wang Shichong waved his hand, "Attack!" ”

The drums sounded loudly on the head of the city, and I saw two armies from both sides of the city, one left and one right, on the left was Wang Shichong's nephew Wang Renze, and on the right was Wang Shichong's henchman Zhang Zhenzhou, who each led 10,000 elite soldiers to kill the Wagang army that was retreating towards the main formation.

30,000 Wagang army was caught off guard, was killed by Wang Shichong and defeated, countless surrenderers, Hao Xiaode also hit three arrows in the melee, fled back to Liang County in embarrassment, this battle Wang Shichong was ruthless, did not accept prisoners of war, and did not exchange prisoners of war with the Wagang army, and all the more than 20,000 soldiers who surrendered were executed.

Wang Shichong betrayed his trust first, killed prisoners later, and since then he has formed an indissoluble feud with the Wagang army.

……….

In Yangwu County, Du Ruhui and more than 100 personal soldiers buried Wei Jin in a place with beautiful mountains and rivers, and the soldiers were all from Guanzhong, and they resigned to Du Ruhui one after another, abandoned their armor and returned to their hometowns, and no longer served the Sui army.

Looking at the groups of soldiers walking away, Du Ruhui couldn't help but sigh lowly, at this time, Wei Wentong slowly walked to his side and asked, "Why didn't Brother Du go back to his hometown with them?" ”

"I've decided not to go back to Guanzhong."

Du Ruhui smiled bitterly and shook his head, "My uncle's last words on his deathbed were to ask me to go to Zhang Xuan, a person is about to die, and his words are also good, I decided to go to Donghai County, even if it is to follow my uncle's will!" ”

He glanced back at Wei Wentong, "What about General Wei, where to go?" ”

Wei Wentong said lightly: "Yang Qing returned to Luoyang yesterday, and got a grand welcome from the Son of Heaven, respecting him as the emperor's uncle, as the so-called Tao is different, do not seek it with him, such a court is no longer worthy of my Wei Wentong's allegiance, at the Heroes Conference that year, Zhang Xuan was magnanimous and spared my life, and I also decided to return his favor." ”

Speaking of this, Wei Wentong asked a little strangely: "How did my brother say that Zhang Xuan is in Donghai County?" ”

Du Ruhui smiled slightly, "Yu Wenhua and the usurper will inevitably return to the north, there are a lot of political and strategic resources in it, how can Zhang Xuan stand by and watch, he will definitely attack in person, the Qingzhou army is famous for its sharp ships, so I deduce that Zhang Xuan has been waiting in Donghai County for a long time, just waiting for Yu Wenhua and returning to the north, and then the army will go out of the Huai River to intercept." ”

Wei Wentong suddenly came to his senses, he secretly admired Du Ruhui's inference in his heart, he thought about it and said: "However, the goal of my two thousand troops is too big, I am afraid that I will not be able to pass the Central Plains region controlled by the Wagang army, and I will not be able to go to Donghai County." ”

"We don't need to go to Donghai County, just go to Beihai County, I suggest that the general can go north directly to cross the Yellow River, on the other side is Hanoi County, where is the territory of the Qingzhou Army, not only safe, but also food supplements, what does the general think?"

Wei Wentong was overjoyed, so he patted Du Ruhui on the shoulder, "In that case, is Brother Du willing to walk with me?" ”

Du Ruhui let out a long breath and said with a smile: "I'm worried about the lack of entanglement, with General Wei here, I don't have to worry about food and lodging all the way!" ”

The two looked at each other and laughed together.

Early the next morning, Wei Wentong packed up and ordered the county order to return the official seal to Yang Qing, and he himself left Yangwu County with 2,000 troops and his companion Du Ruhui, and they went directly north to the Yellow River, looking for boats to cross the river to Hanoi County on the other side. (To be continued.) )